WITH the Coppergate inquiry swallowing up yet more of residents' money on behalf of wealth-stricken developers, I can't imagine that P R Willey will have the slightest difficulty in persuading do-gooders that democracy would be a wonderful thing (Letters, February 1).

All he has to do now is to persuade the do-badders.

William Dixon Smith,

Welland Rise,

Acomb,

York.

Updated: 13:51 Saturday, February 09, 2002